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GOOSTREYSJ 87 SWA 535(North side)Sir Bernard LovellTelescope, Jodrell

GOOSTREY
SJ 87 SW A 535(North side)
Sir Bernard Lovell
Telescope, Jodrell
Bank Laboratory
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Radio Telescope. Built 1952-57. Designed by engineers Husband and Company
of Sheffield to the requirements of Sir Bernard Lovell. Bowl of welded
sheet steel, carried on a space frame of structural steel. Paraboloid bowl
or 250 feet in diameter, with supporting lattice triangles to left and right
or 180 feet high, braced to form a yoke under the bowl. and mounted on a
track of 2 concentric rails of an overall diameter of 353 feet.
The Sir Bernard Lovell Telescope (formerly known as Mark I) was the largest
fully steerable radio telescope in the world of its time.
H. Pevsner. Cheshire p 249
W. J. Sivewright, Civil Engineering Heritage, pp 192-4